Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya admitted that a toxic substance could have been injected into Yulia Skripal's blood before a sample was taken for analysis while she was in a coma. He made this statement at a UN Security Council meeting on April 18, speaking about the classified section of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) report on the poisoning of the Skripals.

Roskomnadzor has sent a request to Cambridge Analytica , which illegally gained access to the data of millions of Facebook users, to collect personal data of Russians. A representative of the agency told the Vedomosti newspaper. The company has not yet responded to the request. Roskomnadzor became interested in the possible leak of Russian data after receiving an appeal from the Association of Professional Users of Social Networks and Messengers, its CEO Vladimir Zykov told Vedomosti.

The Russian Investigative Committee published a video about the investigation of an attempt on Julia Skripal. The video includes footage from the surveillance cameras of Sheremetyevo Airport, which, which states, is visible the whole path of Julia Skripal "up to landing on the aircraft." The frames show how a woman who looks like her leaves a taxi, passes through the scope of the metal detector at the entrance to the airport and lands.

The court, at the request of the Ministry of Culture, extended the measure of restraint to the defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio. Report "Medusa" Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Kirill Serebrennikov in the Basmanny Court On April 18, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the measure of restraint to four defendants in the Seventh Studio case: Kirill Serebrennikov, Alexei Malobrodsky, Yuri Itin and Sofya Apfelbaum.

US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wes Mitchell said Russian mercenaries recently launched an attack on US troops in Syria. In his statement to the House Committee Hearing on American Middle East Policy, Mitchell wrote that Russia's policy in Syria "increases the risk of confrontation with the West." "The recent failed attack by Russian mercenaries on US forces was one of the sobering examples of such behavior," the statement said.

Rossiya-24 on April 18 published an interview with 11-year-old Hassan Diab, who, according to the channel, was one of the subjects of a video about the chemical attack in Douma, which the Russian Defense Ministry calls a production. The story about Diab was also published by Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Russian business owners talk about becoming collateral damage in the federal censor's war on Telegram Meduza On April 16 and 17, as part of its ongoing efforts to cut off access to the instant messenger Telegram, Russia’s federal censor blocked millions of IP addresses belonging to cloud services operated by Google and Amazon, inadvertently disrupting a variety of Russian businesses, from online schools to courier delivery services.

In Houston at the age of 92, Barbara Bush died. All her life she struggled for any American to be able to read and write Tom Pennington / Getty images Barbara Pierce was born in 1925 in the family of the publisher of women's magazines and housewives, studied at a private school (“to be a rebel in it meant to take off gloves and a hat”), and at the age of 16 she went to dances at the Christmas holidays - and met the main person in her life.

April 18th. Three ways to protect against Roskomnadzor Main A 17-year-old ninth-grade student of school No. 1 in Sterlitamak (Bashkiria) attacked a teacher and classmates with a clerical knife. He spilled a flammable liquid in the office and set fire to it, after which he tried to commit suicide. According to unconfirmed reports, the student had been preparing an attack for a long time to take revenge on his classmates who bullied him.

The principal of School No. 1 in Sterlitamak, whose student attacked his classmates and teacher with a knife, knew about his intentions; the teenager's parents also knew about them, the press service of the office of the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation Anna Kuznetsova reported. The ninth-grader told his former classmate from another school about his plans. She passed this on to her mother, who informed the principal of School No. 1.

PA Wire / PA Images / Scanpix / Leta Elizabeth II and Corgi nicknamed Susan, May 30, 1944 Representatives of the Royal Family of Great Britain reported on April 18 that the dog, nicknamed Willow, the last Corgi Elizabeth II, died in the palace. The 14-year-old dog suffered from oncological disease, it was strewn. According to the press service, the euthanus was a forced step-the queen could no longer watch how the dog suffers.

Russia’s federal censor has blocked tens of thousands of IP addresses owned by the U.S.-based cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean. According to a copy of Roskomnadzor’s “out-load” list, late on April 18, the agency ordered Russian ISPs to start blocking the subnets 167.99.0.0/16 and 206.189.0.0/16, each of which masks 65,000 IP addresses. Multiple IP-identification services attribute the IP addresses contained in these subnets to DigitalOcean.

Universal Pictures has published a new trailer for the Jurassic period 2 with Chris Pratt in the title role. In the new part of the film franchise, a wake -up volcano destroys the island of Nublar, on which the entertainment park was located. Some of the dinosaurs can be saved, but their problems do not end there. Universal Pictures Russia The Jurassic World 2 was shot by director Juan Antonio Bayon. The film will be released in Russian rental on June 7, two weeks before the American release.

Update . The Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties said that a Syrian security officer was wounded in Douma on April 17. “There were no Russian servicemen at the scene of the incident,” the center told Interfax . In Syrian Douma on April 17, a Russian officer was injured while escorting UN security personnel, Kommersant reports, citing a source in Damascus.

Roskomnadzor has included tens of thousands of IP addresses belonging to the cloud provider Digital Ocean in the register of banned sites. As follows from the copy of the registry download sent to telecom operators for blocking, on the evening of April 18, Roskomnadzor instructed to block access to subnets 167.99.0.0/16 and 206.189.0.0/16, each of which contains 65 thousand IP addresses.